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Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "a platform having a rod or bar secured to its upper face, and having the ends of the choke-spring coiled thereon, pins or prongs extending from one edge of the platform for engagement with a side of a box, a box having one of its sides elevated, against which the pronged end of the platform abuts for engagement therewith, and having recesses in its opposite ends for the recession of a loop, which passes thence over the free end of the platform for binding the same to the box" (lines 3-14).
Date:
June 12, 1888
Creator:
Beach, Philemon Theodore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lockhart 1888 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Lockhart in Caldwell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1888
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lockhart 1888 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Lockhart in Caldwell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1888
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Sack.
Patent for improvements in a cotton-picker's sack, allowing for easy access to deposit and empty picked cotton while remaining nearly closed to hold and protect the cotton.
Date:
October 16, 1888
Creator:
Cliett, Taylor
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History